Memorandum sales-slip book



(No Model.)

W. MLKINNARD. MEMORANDUM SALES SLIP BOOK.

No. 558,081. P atentedApr 14, 1896.

W itnesses z JQQ QMM Attorney! ANDREW B GRAHAM. PHOTO-HMO. WASHIN m". DC

. 1n addition the book is P TENT OFFICE.

WILL M. KINNARD,

on DAYTON, OHIO.

MEMORANDUM SALES-SLIP BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 558,081, dated April14, 1896. Application filed August 23, 1895. serial No. 560,249. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILL M. KINNARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain. new and useful Improvements in Memorandum Sales-SlipBooks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cover for the sales-slips,within which packages of slips either loose or bound may be readily andeasily secured.

' Another object of my invention is to so construct the sales-slips thatthe slip written upon and its duplicate copy having been detached fromthe cover the next slip may be readily and easily arranged for writingwithout touching or displacing the carbon material.

, The ordinary memorandum sales-sli p books may be divided into twoclasses-those in which the original and duplicate slips are foldedtogether and those in which each slip is folded on itself separately.The advantage gained from the books in which the leaves are foldedtogether is that the carbon material never has to be raised or touchedby the hand of the operator. The disadvantage in the use of this sort ofbook is that more than one slip or page is apt to be folded over thecarbon-paper in the use of the book, and more bulky. In the books inwhich the leaves are folded separately, after the written sheet has beendetached from the book the next slip has to be unfolded and the carbonmaterial raised by the user, thus bringing his hands in contact with thecarbonized paper and soiling them.

The chief object of my invention is to combine the advantages of both ofthese forms of book into one, to have the leaves folded separately, soas to get thebook in compact form and make it impossible to turn over orarrange for writing more than one slip at a time, and to so constructthe pages that in using the book the hand of the operator need nevercome in contact with the carbon-paper.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the sales-slipbook open and ready for use. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal secthe cover Ation of the book, showing the slip partly drawn out from under thecarbon-paper. Fig. 3 is a perspective View in detail of the re tainingdevice for the slips. Fig. 4 isa front view of the part shown in Fig. 3with the slips in place.

. A A are the two covers of the book, having a flexible connection a.The lower half of is formed with a pocket, within which is folded backand forth a considerable quantity of carbon transfer material b. Securedat the inner end of the cover A is a strip of tin or other suitablematerial B. This strip is bent over at right angles to form a back 0 anda top d, the top d being cut away at each end. Secured to the innersurface of this top d, at the outer ends of same and extending downward,are two little pins 6 6, while at the center of the base of the strip Bthe semielliptic spring 0 is secured, the outer ends of this springnormally pressing against the under surface of the top 01 and these endsextending beyond the edge of the top portion d.

The sales-slips are made up'in packages of fifty or a hundred, folded atthe center to form two sheets or pages f g, the upper fold f beingshorter than the lower fold and the upper fold of each slip being cutaway, preferably on the right-hand side, to form a tongue h on each oneof these folds. Each slip is folded in the same way, so that at theinner end the folds 9 will all come together, leaving the upper pages ofthe slips f loose. The user then presses down the spring 0 at each endand inserts the package of slips between the spring and the top d of thespring B, where the slips are firmly held by the pressure of the spring,the pins 6 e piercing the uppermost slips. A sufficient quantity of thecarbon material is then drawn out from the pocket in the cover A andlaid between the fold of the uppermost slip. This carbon material isnarrower than the slips, so that the right-hand portion of same is freeand not in contact with the carbon material. The upper sheet f is filledwith the sales-memoranda, the carbon-paper making a duplicate copy ofsame on the lower half of the slip g, and the user then tears out theoriginal and duplicate copy, readily tearing the same from the pins 6 e,while the pins at the same time hold the other slips in place. Thecarbon material will then be on top of the next slip, and in order toarrange the next slip for writing with the carbon material between thetwo pages thereof the operator runs his pencil underneath the tongue hand draws same out, as shown in Fig. 2, allowing the carbonsheet I) todrop down between the fold, as will be readily understood, and thus thecarbonpaper is not touched or manipulated in any Way. Vhen one packageof slips has been used, other packages are to be inserted and used inthe same way. As the carbon-paper is used up in making the transfers,the wornout portion is cut off and a fresh supply drawn from the pocket.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. A memorandum sales-slip book provided with carbon material for makingduplicate copies and'a series of sales-slips folded separately on eachother each slip being wider than the carbon-sheet and the upper foldthereof having an opening cut on one side to enable the user to unfoldthe slip without touching the carbon-sheet, substantially as shown anddescribed.

2. A book-cover provided with carbon material for making duplicatecopies and a series of sales-slips folded separately upon each other,each slip being wider than the carbonsheet and the upper fold being cutaway on the side to form a tongue, substantially as shown and described.

3. A book-cover provided with a metallic strip secured thereto at itsinner end, said strip being bent to form a bottom, back and top, withthe top cut away at each end, flat spring secured to said bottomnormally pressing against the top of said strip at its ends, andextending beyond the edge thereof, with pins secured to the top topierce the uppermost sales-slips and hold them in the covers,substantially as shown and described.

4. A bookcover, provided with a metallic strip secured thereto at itsinner end, and fiat spring normally pressing against said strip at itsends, and a series of sales-slips and carbon material therefor, eachslip being folded separately and being wider than the carbon material,and the upper fold of each slip being cut away on the side to form atongue, substantially as shown and described.

WVILL M. KINNARD.

\Vitnesses:

O. B. BROWN, LE0 J. HEINREICH.

